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Talking bee-realism, female friendship and the intoxication of undeserved power and position, Charles Adrian revisits the three books he was given by guests at the end of the third season of the podcast.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

Correction: Contrary to what Charles Adrian says in this episode, The Bees by Laline Paull is not really a Sparticus story. Flora 717 is, in effect, an enslaved bee but she does not exactly gather an army to revolt against her hive and nor is she defeated ultimately. You can read about what is known of Sparticus in Live Science here: https://www.livescience.com/39730-spartacus.html and about Cape honey bees (who, while more likely to be parasites than slaves, display traits similar to Flora 717) on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_honey_bee. It is also possible that there is no type of bee that is, in fact, known to enslave other types of bee in the way that ants do. You can read about enslaved ants and cuckoo bees on the OUP blog here: https://blog.oup.com/2016/02/enslaved-ants-and-cuckoo-bees/

Clarification: While Charles Adrian mentions radio waves as an example of damaging human intervention in the natural world, he is not a 5G truther; he is taking an example from the book (The Bees by Laline Paull) which may be based on contemporary research. You can read about a study into the effect of cell phone radiation on bee behaviour in the PMC here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052591/ and about 5G truthers in The Atlantic here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/great-5g-conspiracy/611317/

You can read about the waggle dance that foraging bees perform for other members of their colony on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance

You can read about The Hero's Journey on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

Also mentioned in this episode are Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, The Prisoner Of Zenda by Anthony Hope and Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov; Pale Fire is discussed in Page One 119 and Page One 151.

You can read about the Schleswig-Holstein question on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein_Question and in the Encyclopaedia Britannica here: https://www.britannica.com/event/Schleswig-Holstein-question

Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 104 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/104-daniel-elliot/), Page One 105 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/105-tina-sederholm/) and Page One 106 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/106-neil-spokes/).

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Episode recorded: 1st October, 2020.

Book listing:

The Bees by Laline Paull (Page One 104)

Unless by Carol Shields (Page One 105)

Royal Flash by George Macdonald Fraser (Page One 106)

Not, as promised, a short episode that would have allowed listeners to head out into the apple orchards early, Charles Adrian talks this week about three books that he does not remember so very well.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

You can read about a day Jean Hannah Edelstein spent in Kreuzberg, Berlin, only two years before Charles Adrian's conversation with SooJin Anjou in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/nov/29/a-day-in-kreuzberg-berlin

Correction 1: Groucho Marx died in 1977, not 1972 as Charles Adrian says in this episode.

You can read about the life and work of Groucho Marx on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx

Correction 2: Natalia Ginzburg's father, Giuseppe Levi, was an anatomist and histologist.

You can read the abstract on an article on Giuseppe Levi and his influence in the National Library of Medicine here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16997763/

You can read about London's Crossrail project on their website here: https://www.crossrail.co.uk/

Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 99 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/99-soojin-anjou/), Page One 102 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/102-viviana-rossicaffell/) and Page One 103 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/103-rebecca-yeo/).

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Episode recorded: 21st September, 2020.

Book listing:

The Groucho Letters by Groucho Marx et al (Page One 99)

Lessico Famigliare by Natalia Ginzburg (Page One 102)

The Uninvited by Geling Yan (Page One 103)

Content note: There is some suicidal ideation described at around the 20 minute mark. This episode is marked as explicit on Apple Podcasts because of some derogatory language.

Returning to normal service after last week's break from Page One In Review, Charles Adrian takes his time to talk through three of the biggest books he has been given by guests on the podcast.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

Amos Oz died on the 28th of December, 2018. You can find an article about him and his life-long entanglement with the developing Israeli state by Bernard Avishai in The New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/what-israel-meant-to-amos-oz

You can find out more about Jackson's Lane Theatre and what they are currently programming on their website here: https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/whats-on

Correction: During the reading of Amos Oz's A Tale Of Love And Darkness, Charles Adrian missed out the work 'kind' in the first description of the brown man, his rescuer. The sentence in question should begin: "A brown man with big bags under his kind eyes…"

You can find out more about Vipassana meditation on their English language website here: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index

You can find out more about Jack Munroe, aka The Bootstrap Cook, on their website here: https://cookingonabootstrap.com/

Anna Sulan Masing was featured in Page One 27: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/27-anna-sulan-masing/

You can read about Voices At The Table on their website here: https://atthetable.co.uk/series/voices-at-the-table and read a review of M. F. K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me by At The Table co-founder Rebecca May Johnson in the Times Literary Supplement here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/crunching-delicately-mfk-fisher-patience-gray/

Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 95 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/95-karin-eli/), Page One 97 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/97-barry-ferns/) and Page One 98 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/98-cameryn-moore/).

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Episode recorded: 10th September, 2020.

Book listing:

A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz (trans. Nicholas de Lange) (Page One 95)

Grace And Grit by Ken Wilber (Page One 97)

Borderland from The Art Of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher (Page One 98)

Taking a few minutes away from recording Page One In Review episodes, Charles Adrian talks about a particular kind of convalescent literature.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

"Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don't go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It's up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area over to when she dies. Witches are not by nature gregarious, at least with other witches, and they certainly don't have leaders./Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have." from Weird Sisters by Terry Pratchett.

You can read about Terry Pratchett's Discworld Series on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld

The first Page One In Review episode, which is Page One 157, was recorded on the 18th of March, 2020.

Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith is discussed in Page One 76 and Page One 175, Germany by Neil MacGregor is discussed in Page One 177, The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney is discussed in Page One 27 and Page One 163, and Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary by M. R. James is discussed in Page One 36 and Page One 165.

Also mentioned in this episode is London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd. Another book by Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor, is discussed in Page One 121.

And there are mentions of books by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and P. D. James, The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks and the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler (of which Imago is the third book).

Other books by Terry Pratchett mentioned in this episode are The Colour Of Magic, Equal Rites, Mort, Reaper Man and Weird Sisters.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, published in 1993 by Corgi Books; cover illustration by Josh Kirby.

Episode recorded: 9th September, 2020.

Book listing:

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Getting his mind focused and in the right place, Charles Adrian talks about another ghost book and two books based on real life.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

In case you are interested, Charles Adrian talked about the hot weather in Page One 178 and about getting up early in the morning in Page One 172 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/172-poir-16/).

You can read about The Ridgeway here: https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/the-ridgeway/ and about the reintroduction of Red Kites into the Chilterns here: https://www.chilternsaonb.org/about-chilterns/red-kites.html

Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 93 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/93-tom-bowtell/) and Page One 94 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/94-colin-bartlett/).

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Episode recorded: 1st September, 2020.

Book listing:

How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes

Yoruba Girl Dancing by Simi Bedford

The Ivankiad by Vladimir Voinovich (trans. David Lapeza)

Marked as explicit because of strong language and discussion of sex

Having taken a short change is as good as a holiday, Charles Adrian returns to his wooden IKEA steps to talk about the first three books given to him by guests on the third season of the podcast.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

Correction: The word Charles Adrian was looking for in relation to the cover of The Clown by Heinrich Böll is 'monochrome'. Also, it is, of course, Heinrich Böll who won the Nobel Prize in 1972 not this particular novel.

You can find out more about The Radio Collective here: http://theradiocollective.com/?LMCL=gdVMwA

You can find Phoebe Reads A Mystery here: https://thisiscriminal.com/mystery/

Here is Varna in case you would like to explore the area yourself: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Varna,+Bulgaria/@43.2049449,27.872869,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x40a4538baaf3d7a1:0x5727941c71a58b7c!8m2!3d43.2140504!4d27.9147333?hl=en Galatz, which is the other place mentioned in Bram Stoker's Dracula, is now called Galați and is here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Gala%C8%9Bi,+Romania/@45.4377134,28.0124756,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x40b6dee589f2c4b5:0x53d7342f252d702b!8m2!3d45.4353208!4d28.0079945?hl=en

Correction: In 1993, when Nicholson's London Mini Atlas was published, the East London line ran to Shoreditch at "Peak hours and Sunday mornings". Also, Charles Adrian should have pointed out that Aldwych station, now disused, was still possible to reach on the Piccadilly line from Holborn at "Peak hours only". You can find out more about Aldwych station on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldwych_tube_station

Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 90 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/90-vera-chok/), Page One 91 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/91-richard-purnell/) and Page One 92 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/92-lolie-ware/).

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Episode recorded: 27th August, 2020.

Book listing:

Cunt-Ups by Dodie Bellamy (Page One 90)

The Clown by Heinrich Böll (trans. Leila Vennewitz) (Page One 91)

London Mini Atlas published by Nicholson (Page One 92)

During a very hot spell in West London, with a glass of water at his side and a towel draped over his shoulder, Charles Adrian revisits the last three books given to him by guests during the second season of the podcast.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 87 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/87-alan-cunningham/), Page One 88 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/88-susannah-hewlett/) and Page One 89 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/89-nick-field/).

The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, mentioned briefly here, is discussed more fully in Page One 27 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/27-anna-sulan-masing/) and Page One 163 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/163-poir-7/).

Also mentioned in this episode is Les Caves Du Vatican by André Gide.

The Guardian has a nicely out-dated article from 2014 about subtweeting and vaguebooking that entirely backs up Charles Adrian's understanding of those terms: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/jul/23/subtweeting-what-is-it-and-how-to-do-it-well

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Episode recorded: 11th August, 2020.

Book listing:

Journals 1889-1949 – André Gide (trans. Justin O'Brien) (Page One 87)

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (Page One 88)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Page One 89)

On a lovely sunny day in West London, Charles Adrian talks about two ghost books, a book that never was and two other books, one of which he does not want to read from and one of which he does. Keep listening to the very end of the episode to hear the sound that is keeping Charles Adrian awake.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

You can find Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher's crowdsourced art project Learning To Love You More online here: http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/index.php; Assignment #58 is this one: http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/reports/58/58.php. You can find the web page for the reading of The Swim Team from No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July on Radio 4 Extra here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069r3rg (at time of publishing, this programme is still not available to listen to)

You can, however, listen to The Iron Curtain, which is an episode from the Snap Judgement podcast about a woman called Ulrike Poppe who accessed her Stasi files after the reunification of Germany, here: https://snapjudgment.org/episode/the-iron-curtain-snap-classic/

Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 82 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/82-dave-pickering/), Page One 83 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/83-liz-chan/) and Page One 85 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/85-gary-powell/).

The Red Tree by Shaun Tan, mentioned briefly here, was previously discussed in Page One 84.

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Episode recorded: 5th August, 2020

Book listing:

No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Page One 82)

The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf (trans. Christopher Middleton) (Page One 83)

Germany, Memories Of A Nation by Neil MacGregor

Little Miss Hug by Roger Harvreaves (Page One 85)

The Art Of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Page One 85)

At what might be the half-way point and more opinionated than usual, Charles Adrian talks about three books he was given by friends in Athens.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

You can find out more about the Jacques Lecoq school in Paris on their homepage here: http://www.ecole-jacqueslecoq.com/en

There is a nice introduction to Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker on the British Library website here: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-our-countrys-good

Correction: the last quadrant of Charles Adrian's summary of Pascal's Wager (at 18:22) should read: "If I don't believe in God and God doesn't exist…"

The discussion of Pascal's Wager in this episode is, in any case, a little superficial. You can find a better summary on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager and a more extended analysis in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/

Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet is discussed in Page One 55.

Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 79 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/79-alison-windsor/), Page One 80 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/80-erifili-stefanidou/) and Page One 81 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/81-vicky-sachpazi/).

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Episode recorded: 27th July, 2020

Book listing:

The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally (Page One 79)

Oscar Et La Dame Rose by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (Page One 80)

Selected Poems by C. P. Cavafy (trans. David Connolly) (Page One 81)

Marked as explicit because of strong language

His hair longer, perhaps, than it has ever been in his life, Charles Adrian talks art, bad people and bookshops.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

Correction: during this episode Charles Adrian calls the Bill Drummond book For Sale $20,000 because that is what is written on the cover but its title is in fact $20,000. You can read more about Bill Drummond on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Drummond and you can read about Duncan McLaren's book Personal Delivery on his website here: http://www.duncanmclaren.co.uk/pages/david/index-david.html.

You can read all about the National Poetry Library – which is, in fact, on level 5 of the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre – on their home page here: https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/

Another book by Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley, is discussed in Page One 53.

You can hear Helen Fielding, the author of Bridget Jones's Diary, among other things, on BBC radio 4's Desert Island Discs here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kmr7

Ben Walters was also a guest on Bernadette Russell's podcast How To Be Hopeful, which you can listen to here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-be-hopeful-episode-12-home-made-mutant-hope-machines/id543504687?i=1000480104936

Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 74 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/74-katrina-crear/), Page One 76 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/76-ben-walters/) and Page One 77 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/77-bernadette-russell/).

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Episode recorded: 21st July, 2020

Book listing:

$20,000 by Bill Drummond (Page One 74)

Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith (Page One 76)

Three Things You Need To Know About Rockets by Jessica A. Fox (Page One 77)